2011 Winners, Ronald St. John Macdonald Young Scholars Award
Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 04:50PM The CCIL is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Ronald St. John Macdonald Young Scholars Award. These winners will be presenting versions of their award winning papers at the CCIL's 40th Annual Conference, November 3-5, 2011.
Graduate Category (shared)
Katie Sykes, "'Nations Like Unto Yourselves': Animal Welfare, Cross-Cultural Values And International Law".
Katie Sykes is a doctoral student at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto (2002), an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2004) and an LL.M. from the Schulich School of Law (2011). From 2004 to 2010 she was an associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and from 2002 to 2003 she served as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada
Veronica Pinero, "This is not baby talk: Canadian International Obligations on Health, Identity, and Family Relations Rights".
Veronica Pinero is a LLD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her thesis, for which she was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Fellowship, explores the Canadian youth justice system from a socio-legal-historical perspective. She is also a third year JD student at the University of Calgary, where she is specializing in the taxation of natural resources.
Undergraduate Category
Michael Sung, "Little Brother Is Watching You: The Inverted Global Panopticon In State Compliance".
Michael Sung is currently in his third-year of his J.D. at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to law school, he completed a BA in Sociology at Queen’s University. Michael mooted in the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition, where he received the Spirit of the Jessup Award. During his first year of law school, he was the First-Year Representative for the Law Students Association, as well as Social Director during his second year. Outside of academics, Michael has been a Policy Analyst for the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, as well as a Project Coordinator for the Ministry of Government Services. He has also spent time in South Korea as a Contract Negotiator for Canadian English teachers.